The Royal College of Nursing has this month published its report into key nursing-related pressures on the provision of healthcare by the NHS.
Called ‘10 Unsustainable Pressures on the Health and Care System in England’, the report uses data from all aspects of healthcare to demonstrate the degree of stress currently affecting the NHS.
The report analyses the following areas of pressure which show the increasing problems which, in the eyes of the report, make the provision of care unsustainable in its current form:
• NHS bed occupancy rates
• Sickness absence amongst nurses
• NHS nursing vacancy rate
• Covid-19 infection rates
• NHS hospital waiting times
• NHS elective/community waiting times
• Social care workforce vacancies
• International recruitment in the NHS
• Insufficient domestic NHS and social care nursing supply
• Increased demand for social care services
As examples of their concerns, the report refers to the current nursing vacancy rate at around 40,000 and the 50% increase in four-hour waiting times from approximately 80,000 people in October 2019 to 121,000 people in October 2021.
The report observes that ‘the Government must take action to invest in a number of measures to develop a sustainable nursing workforce supply to meet the needs of the population’.
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